Does anyone know of any software that will work with the K8048 and run on Linux?.. I’ve got OpenSuse11 on a laptop that is my dev environment for tech stuff (PCB, CAD, DMX control)… Unfortunately I need to be able to program one of the bigger PIC18F chips (it’s 28 pins so will fit) so it isn’t supported by the Windows software but I’m hoping I’ll be able to sort it out … I need a chip with a UART capable of RS-485 for DMX and assignable PWM and motor-control outputs plus it will need enough RAM to buffer a DMX packet (512 bytes)
Piklab for Linuxes with KDE is similar to MPLAB IDE and supports K8048. I know it’s part of the distribution for Kubuntu and Mandriva, and probably also for SUSE and Fedora. I had to set delay to 10 on the computer I used.
There is also a stand-alone commandline chip programmer: http://dev.kewl.org/k8048/Doc/. This worked out of the box and should support 18F PIC devices using K16. K14 is for many 16F devices.
If you want to use gpasm (GNU version of MPASM) you can install this via apt-get in Kubuntu. You can also use C compilers for Windows if you install Wine.